Greg at What Attitude Problem has posted the third installment of his thoughts on Fatherhood. If you’ve been following him, you know that his essays on this topic are incredibly brave, open and honest, and provocative, too. Very worth reading. Read more
It’s so nice of Captain Ed to to read Mo Dowd and Frank Rich for us so we don’t have to. Once again, Mo seems to be in odd synchronicity with another NY Times columnist and so we get the double-whammy on their chosen topic. This time she and her co-hort are carrying on about Gannon/Guckert, who seems to be mystifyingly important to the msm. You never know what story is going to catch their fancy, you know? 250 veterans... Read more
A friend of mine who works there emailed me in some frustration, wondering, “why are all the bloggers saying that Josh is bringing suit against CBS? It’s not true – it’s not accurate. He may be mulling it, but he hasn’t done anything more than procure an attorney. He is not (yet) suing CBS. I thought you bloggers were all self-correcting? What was that about glass houses?” Hmmmm…. First off, don’t be angry with my pal – he’s a good... Read more
A call for intellectual honesty and moral clarity as regards the left and the right and the means by which we mutually attack. Kurt Anderson’s essay, When Good News Feels Bad is a really good read, folks, and I’m not saying simply because he writes this to his pals on the left: And now the terrible business of judging the correct price [of Administration policies] requires as much empirical rigor and moral clarity as we can muster, the sort of... Read more
Got an interesting email from Charlotte Allen at the Independent Women’s Forum wherein she directed my attention to a new Susan Estrich meltdown, and her response to it. You can read the Estrich email (and Cathy Seipp’s thoughts, as well) here. I don’t know what is more staggering to me – the strange width and breadth of Estrich’s rage, which seems so oddly time-warped – or the news Allen delivers that, “Estrich, the voluble and famously feminist University of Southern... Read more
This showed up in my email box, and in view of the pending court case concerning whether or not Terri Schiavo lives or dies, it’s something to read and pass along. Florida DOH Destroyed Records After Schiavo Doctor ClearedOf Wrongdoing Following InvestigationBy June Maxam and Ginger Berlin© The Empire Journal A new report issued by the inspector general’s office of Florida’s Department of Health indicates that previous complaints against Michael Schiavo concerning alleged abuse and neglect of his brain damaged... Read more
I really, really admire our First Lady. I think she is the epitome of grace and style, and she’s a smart cookie, to boot. That’s why I am so let-down by this article detailing the kick-off for her campaign to help “at-risk” youths, and her remarks. It’s not that anything she said was wrong, bad or in any way offensive – nothing was – but I am disappointed with this: “When young people get to high school, you can help... Read more
I know, I know, I’m playing with a Ben Franklin quote about beer, but times, change! Had baseball been around when Ben Franklin was air bathing and enjoying a brew, he’d agree with me. I’m thinking about baseball because the gents over at Stones Cry Out are giddy in anticipation and they’ve made me a little giddy, too, hence this link to Thomas Boswell’s brilliant article re Why baseball is better than football. It inspires me to recite my early-springtime... Read more
Suppose you are alive, but paralysed. Your mind seems to be in working order, but you can’t say much. You’re happy to see your family who come to visit you all the time, and you do make every effort you can to respond to your surroundings. You enjoy the sunshine in the morning, when your nurses open the curtains, and you like the sound of rain falling upon the window, and at night, you can see the moon travel across... Read more
I keep meaning to write about this, and then getting sidetracked: Christo and his wife spent 21 millions dollars of their own money to erect 26 miles of “Gates” with billowing saffron drapes upon them, in Central Park. Which is fine. I’m all for art, and if someone wants to spend 21 million dollars to make art (and, even better, if it will only last for two weeks) that’s OK by me. But I listened to folks being interviewed on... Read more
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